Employment
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New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico (May 1989 – Dec.
1990)
Post Doctoral Fellow on a Office of Naval Research sponsored research program
entitled “Interface Engineering in alumina fiber reinforced glass matrix
composites.
Taught a 400 level course entitled
“Composite Materials” in Fall Semester of 1989.
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University
of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (Dec. 90 – May 1991)
Visiting Scientist :
Research area included residual stress computation in metal matrix composites.
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Case
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (May 1991 – July 1993)
Post Doctoral Fellow on a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
project .
Research Activities included :
a.
Hydrostatic Extrusion of
Aluminum matrix composites / NiAl.
b.
Processing
and high temperature
property evaluation of
MoSi2
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Thapar Corporate R & D Center, Patiala, India (June 1994
– Jan. 1997)
Research
Engineer
Research Areas
included :
a.
Development
of Cu-Ni-Sn spinodal alloy
for bearing application
in Rock roller
bits.
b.
Development
of Zinc -
Aluminum alloys to
replace copper - bronze
in worm wheel
gear.
c.
Austempering of Ductile
Iron (ADI)
Taught course entitled “Polymeric
Solids” at Thapar Institute of Engineering and
Technology in Patiala, India.
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (March
1997 – Aug. 2000)
Post Doctoral Fellow on Agency for Science, Technology and
Research (A*STAR) sponsored project.
Research Areas included:
a.
Superplasticity and Superplastic Forming of 5083 AA, 7475 AA, Ti-6Al-4V and Duplex Stainless Steel.
b.
Processing
of SiC/316L Stainless Steel Composite via Powder Metallurgy.
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University
of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (Sept. 2000 – Present)
Visiting
Faculty
Research
Areas include:
a. Effects of
Alpha Stabilized Defects on Fatigue Life of Titanium Alloys Funded by Precision Castparts Corp.
(PCC) (2000-2001)
b. Development
of Low Density Titanium, Project Funded by the National Science Foundation (2000 – 2003).
c. Thermo-Hydrogen
Processing of Titanium Alloys Project Sponsored by the Department of Defence. (2000 – 2002)
d.
Development of new, low cost methods for direct fabrication
of metal near-net shapes (NNS), Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
Proposal( funded by the NSF) in collaboration with KTECH Inc. Albuquerque, NM (2003-2006)
e. Mechanically
Alloyed Ti-48Al-2Nb-2Cr Powder for Automobile Application funded by Vartech Inc.(2004 – 2005)
f. ONR sponsored project entitled “Advanced Lead Acid Battery
Development for Military Vehicles”. (2007)